German Engineering Materials Science Centre GEMS

The German Engineering Materials Science Centre, GEMS is a central user access platform, where the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht provides a worldwide unique infrastructure for complementary research with photons and neutrons. Instruments using synchrotron radiation are operated at the outstation at DESY in Hamburg and instruments using neutrons are located at the outstation at the FRM II in Garching near Munich.

Photons: IBL

Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht takes active part in the PETRA III project by operating and funding the Imaging Beam Line (IBL). This beamline is optimized for micro and nano tomography applications. more

Photons: BioSAXS

EMBL – in cooperation with Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht – runs the SAXS beamline BioSAXS oriented towards biology/soft condensed matter. It provides a wide range of spatial resolutions from about 0.1 nm to 2000 nm and operates in the energy range from 4 to 20 keV. more

Neutrons: STRESS-SPEC

The Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht and the Technical University of Clausthal (Prof. H.-G. Brokmeier) contribute with their texture competence to the operation of STRESS-SPEC at the FRM II together with the Technischen Universität München (TUM). more